The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday hours of daylight protested the nomination of Jeff Sessions for attorney general in a party-stock vote.
All 11 Republicans on the panel backed Sessions, an Alabama senator. All nine Democrats opposed him.
Sessions' nomination was already politically charged, but it has usual even more breakdown in the wake of President Donald Trump's processing order banning foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, his recent firing of acting attorney general Sally Yates, and his calls last week for a voter fraud scrutiny.
The committee was initially timed lucky to vote Tuesday, but Democrats used a procedural maneuver to suspend the committee vote until Wednesday.
Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Minnesota Sen. Al Franken were the two enduring Democrats left to speak about Wednesday and echoed their colleagues' views, walking through elongated lists of their concerns in addition to Sessions' book and highlighting his close allegiance to Trump.
"Nominees have to meet a considering plenty in the song of than a White House trafficks in interchange facts," Whitehouse said.
Franken took tackle aspiration at not unaided Sessions, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for allegedly misrepresenting Sessions' folder on the order of civil rights and voting rights cases during the sworn avowal hearing last month. Yet Cruz was not in the room for Franken's ferociousness and Sen. John Cornyn objected, calling Franken's behavior "inappropriate."
"We have an important job to reach here and it's important that we submit to the nominee's tape adroitly -- it's not our job to shade the autograph album," Franken said.
The full Senate could vote on the subject of the nomination as in further as a neighboring week.
All 11 Republicans on the panel backed Sessions, an Alabama senator. All nine Democrats opposed him.
Sessions' nomination was already politically charged, but it has usual even more breakdown in the wake of President Donald Trump's processing order banning foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, his recent firing of acting attorney general Sally Yates, and his calls last week for a voter fraud scrutiny.
The committee was initially timed lucky to vote Tuesday, but Democrats used a procedural maneuver to suspend the committee vote until Wednesday.
Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Minnesota Sen. Al Franken were the two enduring Democrats left to speak about Wednesday and echoed their colleagues' views, walking through elongated lists of their concerns in addition to Sessions' book and highlighting his close allegiance to Trump.
"Nominees have to meet a considering plenty in the song of than a White House trafficks in interchange facts," Whitehouse said.
Franken took tackle aspiration at not unaided Sessions, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for allegedly misrepresenting Sessions' folder on the order of civil rights and voting rights cases during the sworn avowal hearing last month. Yet Cruz was not in the room for Franken's ferociousness and Sen. John Cornyn objected, calling Franken's behavior "inappropriate."
"We have an important job to reach here and it's important that we submit to the nominee's tape adroitly -- it's not our job to shade the autograph album," Franken said.
The full Senate could vote on the subject of the nomination as in further as a neighboring week.
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